Nearly 10 years since flooding displaced hundreds of thousands of
residents after Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans region’s growth rate
continues to slow as the initial surge that marked a returning
population is giving way to more typical growth patterns, according to
new figures from the U.S. Census Bureau.

New Orleans was home to about 384,320 people last year and sat at
the center of an eight-parish metro area with a combined population of
more than 1.25 million, according to estimates released this week.

While New Orleans grew at a respectable rate of 1.4 percent between
2013 and 2014 and the larger region saw an 0.8 percent increase, the
area is no longer putting up the high growth percentages it did as
residents flocked back in the years immediately following Katrina.